political quotes

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. - George Washington

Hell yeah, I'm confused for sure
What I thought was the New Millennium is 1984!
Mr. Orwell from the grave, adding fresh ink to the page
As the unpresident declares an endless war...
Welcome to 1984! - Anti-Flag, Welcome to 1984

And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say goodbye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand. The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst; the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. - Mark Twain